skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I've found that "well curated" sometimes becomes a double-edged sword in Costco's case. Mainstream brands can be expected to be available perennially; however, smaller/niche items and brands will often get cycled out or replaced by something else which may or may not be comparable.

Many times I've found products at Costco that I enjoy, only for them to suddenly stop carrying them a week or a month later.
Obviously tech isn't a monoculture and everyone has their own unique opinions, however...

I think it boils down to more of "Hey, we can criticize StackOverflow since we're on the inside... but if someone attacks from the outside, we have its back."
> Directly voting on laws is neither necessary nor ideal for a democracy.

a) That depends on which subjective definition you are using, and also whether you realize your definitions are subjective.

b) It isn't possible for you to know what is "necessary" or "ideal", thus you are speculating.

> Again, squinting too hard.

Speaking (and perhaps even thinking) in popular but misinformative catchphrases may not be ideal.

> American democracy is extremely flawed, yes, but no that doesn't make every other self-proclaimed democracy actually the same.

This is true if considered independently (not in the context of this conversation), but what is the "but no" part referring to?

> Your noteworthy note is not that noteworthy.

Your subjective opinion appearing to you as an objective fact is noteworthy.

> Curricula are almost entirely controlled by state and local school boards.

There is how things are supposed to work, there is how things are claimed to work, and then there is how things actually work (and even this is a substantial simplification). Talking about that last one is...culturally frowned upon.

> The federal DOE has extremely limited requirements by design to prevent the exact thing you're accusing them of doing.

Maybe this is part of the problem!

Regardless: I think it is time the public stopped taking all this nonsense lying down, and behaving as if we are helpless observers trapped in a stream of reality in which we have and can have no control over.

From below:

>> Thank you for sharing your opinion!

Very interesting. Is this interesting to you?

> I don't think we'll see eye to eye on this and that's okay.

When you say "that's okay", what is it you are referring to? Reality?
Have you seen the latest VAC ban wave?
Tesla cuts even more workers as unsold inventory stacks up
Not sure if this is a sincere question or more of a philosophical "should we be doing this".

For the former, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act [1] protects the creation of majority-minority districts, which are districts with a majority of a racial or linguistic minority population.

For the latter, it's not ideal. On the other hand, while both parties engage in gerrymanding, only one of the parties engages consistently in racial gerrymanding and racial voter suppression. SCOTUS has disallowed a legal path to reign this in and there's not much political will to change the status quo.

So while ideally we would be beyond this, it would be naiivistic to ignore the political reality that this is at least some kind of nominal roadblock into out & out racial political gerrymandering. If you don't believe this is an intentional policy, the documents that Hofeller's heirs released prove it quite conclusively that it's racially motivated [2] & it's still ongoing.

[1] https://redistricting.lls.edu/wp-content/uploads/Basics-Engl...

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-files-of...
> People rave about the low prices, but I can only assume that is some kind of collective delusion. Where I live, the grocery stores across the street always have better prices on meat and dairy, usually fruit and veg too.

You can get better prices at the grocery, but the quality is generally lower and the price isn't always lower. For example, chicken breasts are $3/lb at costco, individually packaged for freezing and high quality. Sure, I can often get breasts at the market in the bulk pack for $2/lb or less, but they're more water-logged, not ready-packed for the freezer, and don't taste as good. I happily pay somewhat more for the convenience and quality at a still low price. To get that level of quality at the grocery, I'm up at $6/lb for organic, name brand chicken. That's Costco's approach, especially with their in-house Kirkland Signature products: very high quality, and reasonable, sustainable prices.

> For the non-food things they sell, you can usually get the same exact thing on Amazon at the same price, without having to drive anywhere or wait in line for the receipt-checking security theatre.

Sometimes this is true, and sometimes you get the Amazon item and it's actually hidden lower-quality; the stitching on clothing is worse, the colors don't pop as much, etc. For fungible products that have a single SKU (books, electronics, kitchenware, most dry goods), Amazon is great, but when there's an opportunity for hidden quality drops and cost-downs, Costco has a buyer on-staff ensuring that the manufacturer doesn't cut corners. Amazon is rife with corner-cutting.
At some point ad block technology will have to evolve to simply use physical force to eliminate all ads at their root cause: marketing departments and, ultimately, capitalism.

I propose this will be the fully automated luxury gay space communist revolution. It will free the memes of production, and destroy all marketing departments and ad copy.
Right, and GUIs dont have GUI specific bugs ever? Thats what you seem to be implying, or the underlying dependency becomes incompatible.
Nothing is going to hit the price/warmness combo of plastic based fleeces, but I find the smelliness factor on synthetics to be worth paying extra for high quality natural fibers. Plastic clothing just ends up smelling gross and needs 2x-3x the washing!

Some alternatives I've found. (I'm not associated with any of these, other than as a full price paying satisfied customer):

1) Silkliving.com is a New Zealand company that sells a 100% silk fleece. It's AMAZING to wear, and has a price to match. Pretty hard wearing, but I wouldn't wear it as my outer layer and then do construction or rock climbing or whatever. This fleece is as warm as plastic or wool, weighs less than plastic, is comfy over a wider range of temps, and just literally the best fleece money can buy for anything other than activities where it will get abraded. Sadly, only comes in black. I'm hoping if you all buy one, they will justify more colors because I want to buy more of these.

2) Minus33 is a New Hampshire, USA company (minus33.com) that makes a hard wearing 100% merino wool fleece. Their "expedition" weight is heavy, but WARM. I have two of these.

3) Arms of Andes (armsofandes.com) make Alpaca wool clothing. Alpaca fiber is hollow and smaller than merino wool, so it will be lighter (or the same weight but warmer) and slightly softer than merino. It's not as soft or light as silk though, and you might not notice the difference, whereas you will DEFINITELY notice silk vs. merino. They don't have a full zip hoodie, which is unfortunate, but they do offer non-toxic plant based dyes, which is nice! Remember, you are breathing that fiber in and swallowing it, so while it's an upgrade to go from plastic to natural fibers, it's also an upgrade to move away from to old school nasty heavy metal based dyes.
I thought you were just going to point out that maybe the net result was positive, lol. I'd take OSM being useful in 90% more places in exchange for some fake beaches.

Really, though, the quote you took was from the last paragraph of the article and was referring to players who didn't abuse their power, not people who built up a reputation just to plant something later. So it's not really an xz incident equivalent.
They haven't ruled out epigenetics causes, but they are talking about a very specific gene (APOE4) with an extremely strong correlation with Alzheimer's when two copies of the gene are present.
Yes, that is likely the case here as well. But if someone is not well versed in cloud providers and reads these comments, they might be misinformed without clarifying that this issue is AWS vs other providers, as opposed to dedicated vs shared resources.
In the original games you had to go out to catch Pokémon.

The world is big…

There’s a whole life outside.
IBM AIX's Unix domain datagram socket implementation could potentially expose applications using Unix domain datagram sockets with SO_PEERID operation and may lead to privilege escalation. CVSS Base score: 8.1
Debt is a tool:

1. Use it to account for the mismatch between income and expenses.

2. It takes money to start a business. You can borrow and start the business now, or save up for N years and then start. Same thing for buying a house.

3. If you can borrow money at 5%, and invest it at 10%, you make money.

Using debt to buy frills, though, is not a great idea.

I also use margin debt to increase my stock purchases. The returns are larger, but I must also endure wilder swings in the value. Some people say "what if the stock market goes to zero, what then, huh?" My reply is if the stock market goes to zero, everything else has gone to hell including whatever other investments you have.
I head engineering at Rev and every time we talk to Nvidia about GPUs they tell us to go to you guys. Every time. They really like Lambda!
> It seems like AWS' entire business model is making the pricing so confusing that you don't know what it will cost until after you've used it. It feels weirdly similar to the US healthcare/insurance situation.

Not just the healthcare situation, but everything. There's nothing much more stereotypically American than "not knowing what you're going to pay for something until you're billed." Dozens of little fees on your cable or ISP bill, resort fees in hotels, service charges on your restaurant bill, fees on car rentals, fees from your bank when you so much as breathe on your account, and of course sales taxes which for some reason are never listed on the tag in any store.
> Should the game be inherently fair? ... Maybe it'll take a long time!

I don't think "maybe it'll take a long time!" is an apt response to "the game is unfair". The parent isn't objecting that it's unfair because it might take a long time, they're objecting that it's unfair because many people can't afford to travel the world. Maybe a better response would be:

> Should the game be inherently fair? ... Maybe it should take tens of thousands of dollars!

While I don't find that compelling, it at least seems more logical IMHO.
Crypto has this covered with 4090's available on clore and several other platforms.
Yeah, honestly, I'd like a smartwatch type monitor without any smart features; just something that sits on my wrist and displays my heart rate so I can watch it myself. I've looked a bit, but such a thing hasn't been easy to find.
Time to stock up on power armor and Rad-Away. This is how it started.
What British Cheddar your Costco has? I don’t think mine has it.
FFmpeg in Python: library to manipulate video and audio
the best example of this can be seen by comparing the experience buying a treadmill on amazon, to the experience buying a treadmill from costco.
A funny comment from that article:

"On CoreWeave, renting an Nvidia A100 40GB — one popular choice for model training and inferencing — costs $2.39 per hour, which works out to $1,200 per month. On Azure, the same GPU costs $3.40 per hour, or $2,482 per month; on Google Cloud, it’s $3.67 per hour, or $2,682 per month."

Am I missing something? I am sure I'm a bit rusty in math, but I can still handle a calculator. ~720 hours in a month (roughly), and that means CoreWeave would cost $1,720.80 per month, Azure is $2,448 per month, and Google Cloud is $2,642.40 per month.

Why are all of these numbers reported in the article off? Some slightly--Azure and Google Cloud are close, but CoreWeave is off by about 30%. I won't go further into the numbers as to why the author came up with these results, but I'm just wondering if this article was written by AI, which would explain why basic multiplication is incorrect.
the article does not say if the public has a stake in the private entity created to do this, which makes me curious why this path was chosen in the first place
Aren’t virtually all outdoors wear made of plastics? As far as I know, cheap brands and also pricier ones like Arcteryx all use the same materials. But they work great in terms of shedding water so I am not sure what alternative there is. Maybe the best way is to use all natural clothing for base layers but have the outer layer be plastic?
Most of their subscriptions are available in a true month-to-month plan with cancellation at any time without a fee. But they charge a lot more for that plan. For example, $89.99 for month-to-month vs $59.99 for monthly payments toward an annual plan. Still, it’s the cheaper and better option if you’re only using it for a few months of the year.
It seems a number of devices are now randomizing their MACs when connected to wifi. I'm not sure how they handle address collisions, if they do at all. Most wifi APs serve a lot fewer devices than a cell tower, but it's possible that the issue isn't as significant as I thought.
Every square cm is an exaggeration. Malaysia and Indonesia in my understanding accepted Islam largely through peaceful trading contacts. The Levant in particular, however, was conquered militarily and Arabized by a succession of Muslim conquests:

Rashidun Caliphate (632–661)

Umayyad Caliphate (661–750)

Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258)

Fatimid Caliphate (909–1171)

Ayyubid Dynasty (1174–1260)

Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517)

Ottoman Empire (1517–1918)

Where there is overlap, they ruled different parts of the area.

Personally, I think the idea of prior indigenous claim is counter productive, but since it has been introduced by Palestinians as a kind of volksgemeinschaft, blut und boden, Jews would have prior claim by that standard.
> No one expects the phone company to preemptively identify and block stalkers

People do really expect that one.
Costco has 95% lower shrinkage compared to retail average; hard to say how much is due to the receipt checks though; some of it probably comes from lower employee turnover as well since a non-trivial amount of retail shrinkage is from employees.
Have orgs done this manually in the past? For example, they have a private key that is stored in Github secrets and it signs the artifact upon action completion and posts it to some tamperproof registry.

Then anyone can verify it by checking the signature and contents against the org's public key, which is made available somewhere.

This certainly seems like a UX improvement, and a simpler (and thus safer) key management process.
MIT: Actions being taken regarding the encampment
I have yet to find sensitive toothpaste sold at comparable prices anywhere else. Buying one of those packages saves enough to pay for the membership by itself.
> (What even is the point of doing `Locale.setDefault()` with the same Locale that `Locale.getDefault()` returned? I don't know anything about Android.)

The code intends to trim the country, variant and any extensions from the value returned from `Locale.getDefault()`

Example: "Chinese (Traditional) - Taiwan" to "Chinese"

Pseudocode:

`zh_Hant_TW` -> `zh`

It also normalizes to fix some Android internal mapping issues due to changes in ISO 639 (Hebrew can be `iw` or `he[b]`)
There's no way you're getting a machine for $40/month. :-)

Did you mean a dedicated VM or VPS?

(I have a bunch of actual dedicated machines with different providers, and this would save me a lot of money.)

(Edit: holy moly those prices are fantastic!)
The problem with tech (especially software) is that spyware is often a core component of the business model. Apple spies on its users in the same way as these 3rd party tools. It’s almost worse because in Apple’s case, the users “consented” to it in the Terms & Conditions popup. At least the “spyware” company can’t throw a contract in your face when you attempt to collect damages.
What you say is probably true for their enterprise deals, but most of their retail plans do offer true month-to-month options for less than double the monthly price of the annual commitment. It’s a good option when one is only using it for a few months of the year.
Related:

Lots of discussion on the Baltimore case

Ex-athletic director arrested for framing principal with AI-generated voice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158183
It's certainly not kind to men either, and your source does not make any comparisons between men and women in this regard.

Sibling comment source makes a more compelling case for why women receive more abuse than me.
SQS and EventBridge targets not even on the roadmap? Why? Any specific reason?
The brain is part of you, but not the whole you, so it's different by definition. Same goes for the body. Now that they are split, the distinction is only more pronounced.

The narrator goes on to investigate how and whether the difference is actually supported by subjective feelings.
Show HN: Small.store – Smallest e-commerce platform for small sellers
Hello HN!
Excited to share something I've been working on.

https://small.store

It's a super small e-commerce platform for individual sellers and creators.

As a small creator on the side myself (making and selling furniture), I wanted to have the option to sell online with as little effort as possible so I can focus on the actual goods being sold. I sold via social media so having a fancy website didn't matter, people just want to see the products being offered when they clicked on the link in the bio. On top of that, the fees Etsy charges were just too much so having a separate store was ideal. And Shopify is/was nice but those monthly subscription fees were sometimes not ideal when I took long breaks from selling.

small.store doesn't take a fee and is free to use. I do offer paid plans for extra features like "back in stock notification". You get your own unique subdomain too so you don't have to purchase a domain name.

I've been signing up stores and here is some (including my own):

Jewelry https://twinmirror.small.store

Furniture https://rose.small.store
> Google seems to be arguing that chats are different than other documents (informal and ephemeral, I guess?) and default auto-delete is reasonable for them.

Yes but only if they are their chats. Your chats are still used for your profiling.

In some countries, disregarding laws is a fellony.
As has been said by others, sheep are not killed for wool at all.

https://youtu.be/mANMw7nFYIQ?t=67
Eh. I had a costco membership for one year in order to get cheaper tires. I shopped there for food once. It's fine if you only eat shelf-stable heavily processed food. I prefer fresh produce. It really puts you in the mindset of high consumption. If I had four kids I would probably shop there more often, but since I don't I prefer the grocery co-op down the street that stocks produce from local farms and has bulk bins for almost everything so I can buy small quantities of really fresh food. I used to live in the north Texas food desert and I can imagine it would be a much more attractive retailer there because fresh, local food doesn't really exist in north Texas.

My main memory of Costco is seeing tons of products that were presented as bulk, but were actually regular. Like a bottle of 200 Tylenol (normal size that every small pharmacy carries) but at Costco it was in a quart-size bottle and each individual bottle was placed in a giant cardboard tray and shrink-wrapped to make it physically take up as much space as possible. And it was selling at an above-average price.
Compressed air is notoriously low-efficiency when you do it like in ye olden days, by venting the compression heat to the environment. A-CAES means capturing that heat, storing it separately and transferring it back into the decompression stream in discharge. Yes, this means that there will be some trickle discharge loss when using the storage scheme for long duration, but heat storage is a happy square-cube law thing, at a certain scale it even become viable for seasonal storage. A-CAES usually claim about 70% round trip efficiency.

But you are right in that this number really isn't all that important in the renewables age: when we are anywhere close to getting to 100% renewables on a point of median supply and median demand, production capacity (conversion capacity from sunshine and air movement) at times when sun coincides with wind will so far outpace demand that any energy sink will do that can still pay a positive rate. We're a long way from fully renewable were I live, and some days I see two thirds of turbines stopped in nice wind. It's really all about capex per W and per Wh. Admittedly, A-CAES isn't necessarily excellent in this right now, but it might scale quite nicely with routine.

Recently there was a gravity storage scheme linked here on hn about lowering mining refuse back into old mines to discharge, and digging it back up to charge, which comes with the curious property that it never really reaches a point of saturated capacity: in theory you could keep digging new tunnels forever when energy surplus keeps coming in.
You're using imaginary references, there's nothing to discuss here.
Usually no. But the German public broadcast isn't private at all.
Obvious straw man. No one is arguing that location based games shouldn't factor in location. The claim was that success in the game shouldn't be dependent on the size of your wallet. You can have location based games that don't require you to travel internationally or even across regions in one's own country, for example.
This is great evidence of how embedded the intelligence community is with Hollywood.
I dunno, plugging my phone in and having it automatically pop up a suggested route for getting home, that avoids the traffic jam on the freeway I was unwittingly planning on taking, is pretty sweet.
That's peak design for me.
Multiplier: 5.9 billion

That's... several orders of magnitude larger than I'd have guessed.
The transportation department doesn't choose their own budget, the legislators do. Many of the things the transportation department does are life-critical -- emergency services need usable roads. And if you don't have transportation infrastructure then you don't have commerce or a tax base or money to spend on anything else.

Whereas if you're asking whether they should remove other waste from the transportation budget, or any other budget, which is money spent with low value (e.g. overpaying to use a politically connected contractor), and use that money for cancer research, the answer is yes.
> Someone in the middle of the country can't legitimately travel to a beach area.

Lakes and sometimes rivers have beaches.
OVH and Hetzner have offerings at that price range. you can use a tool like serverhunter.com to find all sorts of economically-priced servers.
wool fiber is used because its protein nanostructure is impermeable to water. it is an effective insulator even when the fabric is wet.

plant fibers can't replicate this.

polymer fibers can replicate this because they are solid extrusions.
You’re absolutely our target market! You’re not delegating the decision, you’re delegating the interviewing. We don’t make a decision, we give you a video and scorecard of a one hour technical interview. You can integrate our interviews at any stage in your pipeline (e.g instead of a phone screen), and do more interviewing for those that do well. Please note that this is common in software, see karat.com.

Yes, we can use any CAD software (or at least, we will seriously consider it). We’re a new company and following the YC advice of doing things that don’t scale. If that means buying 5 different software licenses for our first 5 customers, then we’ll do that.
> The thing that gets me is that we were so close to not having any casual nicotine in my generation

A couple people have claimed this so far in this thread. Is there any data to support this hypothesis? My feeling is the percentage addicted to nicotine wouldn't have been significantly lower without vaping.